William Thomas McCraw

Age 20, he enlisted on 19 April 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 September, furloughed on 6 October, and was back with his Company by January 1863. He was captured near Fredericksburg, VA on 3 May 1863 and in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC by 7 May. He was transferred to Fort Delaware and exchanged, date not given, and rejoined his unit on 17 June 1863. He was admitted to a Richmond hospital with a gunshot wound on 16 May 1864, details not given, and furloughed again, for 60 days on 23 July 1864. He was captured again, at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, MD, where he was released on 29 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance. He was sent through Washington, DC and provided transportation to Meridian, MS about 1 July.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/01/1840 in MS

09/26/1890; Sharkey County, MS; burial in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, MS